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81. The German Social Democrats in Opposition, 1949-1960: The Case Against Rearmament by Gordon D. Drummond | |
Hardcover: 374
Pages
(1982-12)
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82. The Transformation of the Japanese Left: From Old Socialists to New Democrats (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) by Sarah Hyde | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(2009-10-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party. Sarah Hyde has produced an original book which looks at the intra-left (non-communist) opposition party manoeuvrings during the 1990s through to the new millennium in a highly detailed and focused manner whilst simultaneously looking at the three most significant changes for the left nationally: the change to the electoral system, the change to public opinion regarding defense and the Constitution after the First Gulf War and the changes to the Labour Union movement. Ending with a chapter on the incredibly important 2007 Upper House election, which brings the development of the opposition full circle, this book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of Japanese politics, electoral systems and opposition politics. |
83. Democrat's Soul: A Tried-and-True View of Everything Blue by various | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2008-05-27)
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Editorial Review Product Description Democrats Unite! You're a Democrat. You pride yourself on democratic values, did a victory dance when your party took back the House in 2006, and are on a mission to champion the Democrats to reclaim the White House in the election of 2008! Democrat's Soul is a celebration of your political adventure and pride in your party. Customer Reviews (2)
Solid Addition To My Democrat Library
Interesting Book |
84. The Democrats: From Jefferson to Clinton by Robert Allen Rutland | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(1995-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Interlacing humor into his ongoing narrative, Robert Allen Rutland provides in The Democrats a readable, balanced account of how the Democratic party was founded, evolved, nearly died, and came back in the twentieth century, flourishing as a political melting pot despite numerous setbacks. This updated version of Rutland's much-heralded The Democrats: From Jefferson to Carter provides new insight into the long hiatus in the Democrats' presence in the White House between Carter and Clinton. In additon to analyzing Carter's successes and failures as president, Rutland also examines the forces that went into the Democratic defeats and Republican victories in 1980, 1984, and 1988, concluding with the election of another Jeffersonian Democrat, William Jefferson Clinton. The book ends with an examination of the dramatic results of the 1994 congressional elections that began to alert President Clinton to the challenge he would face in winning reelection in 1996. Customer Reviews (2)
Not Well Put Together The book was positive; I give the author that. When there were negative issues they were glossed over if even mentioned.I new based on the size of the book that it was not going to be an exhaustive history, but even this brief look at each President left me disappointed.Also I kept thinking that the author wanted to write a history of the Democratic party and the publisher wanted a history of the Democratic Presidents and what came out was a compromise that did not serve either cause very well.I would have much rather had a few more pages on FDR (then the 15 offered) and less about the Kansas City and Chicago political bosses and the third party candidates on some elections. I do not want to be all-negative, there were a number of interesting facts and he hit the high notes on each man.I was interested enough to finish the book.I am just going to have to keep looking for a better effort at this topic.
A subjest too broad for one book. The simple fact is that Mr. Rutland took upon himself a rather large task in writing a history of the Democratic party.To do this task justice one would have to turn out a work that would rival in length the volumes written by Shelby Foote on the Civil War.In fact, this subject would probably require even more volumes since the subject covers over two hundred years of history. As it is the book in its 241 pages is only able to deal in the most superficial way with its subject. Still this book does a fair job of following America's oldest party from its roots as Jefferson looks to a nation of farmers to today's urban America.Along the way we see the Democrats changing to become the party of the common man and the underdog. We see the party begin to take its present form in 1896 as William Jennings Bryan and his populists take control of the convention.We see more change in 1912 with the nomination of the progressive Woodrow Wilson.Then in 1932 FDR comes along and the Democratic party is forever changed.Old Democratic issues like tariffs and free silver give way to civil rights and labor relations. The direction of the party continues on the course set by Roosevelt as Harry Truman takes over and then LBJ sets off an a path of sweeping social change that for good or bad forever changes the United States. Oddly, the book gives little credit for the present positions of the Democratic party to JFK. There are also a few places in the book where Mr. Rutland's facts are wrong.For example he states that in the election of 1896 William McKinley took T. Roosevelt with him to Washington as his Vice President when in fact T.R. wasn't on the ticket until 1900. For the most part however his facts do seem straight and he covers the subject as well as could be expected in such a short book. Overall, the book could have been more in depth and such a large subject should probably never have been undertaken.I remember in high school english I always tried to choose a very broad topic for any paper I had to write because I figured it would be easy to turn out twenty pages that way.My teacher always called me on my plan though and I had to narrow it down.Maybe Mr. Rutland needed a good high school english teacher to make him do the same here. On the other hand it is hard to study American history without a study of the Democrats.The party of Jefferson has been here through most of our history. So while this book gives one a quick look at the history of one party it also for the most part does the same for American history.Its not a waste of time to read this book by any means but it is more gravy than meat. ... Read more |
85. Positively American: How the Democrats Can Win in 2008 by Chuck Schumer | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2008-02-05)
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86. Democrats Under Siege in the Sunbelt Megastates: California, Florida, and Texas by Albert Nelson | |
Hardcover: 136
Pages
(1996-09-13)
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87. The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War by Wallace Hettle | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2001-04-23)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Peculiar Democracy analyzes antebellum politics in terms of the connections between slavery, manhood, and the legacies of Jefferson and Jackson. It then looks at the secession crisis through the anxieties felt by Democratic politicians who claimed concern for the interests of both slaveholders and nonslaveholders. At the heart of the book is a collective biography of five individuals whose stories highlight the limitations of democratic political culture in a society dominated by the "peculiar institution." Through narratives informed by recent scholarship on gender, honor, class, and the law, Hettle profiles South Carolina's Francis W. Pickens, Georgia's Joseph Brown, Alabama's Jeremiah Clemens, Virginia's John Rutherfoord, and Mississippi's Jefferson Davis. The Civil War stories presented in The Peculiar Democracy illuminate the political and sometimes personal tragedy of men torn between a political culture based on egalitarian rhetoric and the wartime imperatives to defend slavery. Customer Reviews (1)
Fascinating book |
88. A Plain Statement Addressed to All Honest Democrats by Loring Moody | |
Paperback: 34
Pages
(2010-07-24)
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89. Hawaii's Democrats: Chasing the American Dream by Paul C. Phillips | |
Hardcover: 222
Pages
(1983-01)
Isbn: 0819121436 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
90. WHY I AM A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT by DUNCAN BRACK | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(1996)
Isbn: 1851873082 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
91. Twilight of the Texas Democrats: The 1978 Governor's Race (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) by Kenneth Bridges | |
Hardcover: 234
Pages
(2008-01-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description At the time, observers asked whether the election of a Republican governor was a mere flash in the pan. For the previous twenty years, other races, at every level from national to local, had made inroads into Democratic strongholds, but that party's dominance by and large had held. In 1978, the situation changed. Now, historian Kenneth Bridges--drawing on polling data, newspaper reports, archival sources, and extensive interviews--both confirms the significance of the election and explains the many and complex forces at work in it. He analyzes a wide range of factors that includes the disaffection among Mexican American voters fanned by La Raza Unida, miscalculations by Democrat John Hill and his campaign staff, the superior polling techniques used by Clements, the unpopularity of the Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, the changing demographics of the state, and the unprecedented spending by the Clements team. In the process, Bridges describes not an ideological realignment among Texas voters, but a partisan one. Twilight of the Texas Democrats illuminates our understanding of both political science and regional history. |
92. The Christian Democrat International by Roberto Papini | |
Paperback: 312
Pages
(1996-01)
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93. Democrats Do the Dumbest Things by Bill Crawford | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2000-05-05)
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Freaking Hilarious
Don't Talk Back!
So true! |
94. The Once and Future Democrats by Paul Simon | |
Hardcover: 182
Pages
(1982-05)
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95. American Government and the Vision of the Democrats by Mark Louis Latour | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(2007-04-26)
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96. Labour's Decline and the Social Democrats' Fall by Geoffrey Lee Williams, Alan Lee Williams | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1989-07)
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97. The German Social Democrats and the First International: 1864-1872 by Roger Morgan | |
Paperback: 300
Pages
(2008-10-30)
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98. The European Policy of the German Social Democrats: Interpreting a Changing World (New Perspectives in German Studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)).) by James Sloam | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(2005-03-02)
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99. When Conventions Were Conventions : Democrats by John McDonough | |
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(2000-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The story of that history is the subject of the extraordinary montage of sounds collected here, many never before available on tape or record.Hear the voices and speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, H.V. Kaltenborn predicting a Thomas Dewey victory. Dwight Eisenhower, Hubery Humphrey, Barry Goldwater and many more. Told by Robert Trout, the legendary CBS, NBC, and ABC broadcaster whose voice has reported every American political convention of the 20th Century since 1936; and perhaps one of the few men alive able to make sense of those most remarkable and persistent political contraptions, the Democratic and Republican parties. |
100. I Forgot, Honey, Why Are We Democrats? by Kenneth R. Libbey | |
Paperback: 189
Pages
(1998-04-01)
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Title says it all
Wake up message for Democrats
Pretty good "pep talk" to true Democrats Thus, when I saw this book, I hadto buy it. What I found was a very good pep talk to true blue Democrats. The great thingis that this book spoke to all Democrats - conservativeDemocrats, "Blue Dog" Democrats, Reagan Democrats(come home!),moderate Southern Democrats, New Democrats, Libertarian Democrats, liberalDemocrats, labor and New Deal Democrats, left liberal Democrats and...well,the list goes on(alas - we are a diverse party!)This book left no groupout on most issues(abortion, sadly, being the only one on which the authorseems to want a litmus test). To the author's credit - he seemed tounite Democrats on the one issue we all care about - the American communityand the government's moral responsbility to it.The American peopledeserve not "small" government, which caters to the richindirectly, but responsible government. Personally, I am a die-hardNew Deal Democrat who believes that every family deserves the right to goodhealth care, education, a good job with a living wage, time with thefamily, equal rights and opportunity and dignity on the job.This is not a"lost dream" for any Democrat.This book specifies this dreamwell. ... Read more |
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